From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 19 14:31:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA06787 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:31:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA06782 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:31:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA03447; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:23:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:23:01 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Nate Williams cc: Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Version Resolution? In-Reply-To: <199711192205.PAA06912@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > [ Versioning the development kernels ] > > > > 2.2.5-STABLE-971118 > > Where does the date come from? If it's generated on your box, then it's > of little use since it doesn't say which source tree it was built from, > which vary wildly depending on where your sources came from. It *should* come with the sources, as I said, so that the date is valid no matter when the "make world" is done or when the kernel is built. This seems to be the hard part. In this specific case, of course, I have just added it to newvers.sh myself. Annelise